CVE-2017-15527

Published Nov 20, 2017

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description
Prior to ITMS 8.1 RU4, the Symantec Management Console can be susceptible to a directory traversal exploit, which is a type of attack that can occur when there is insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the file APIs.
Source
secure@symantec.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
0.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5.2
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
5.1
Vector string
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-22

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations